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by contextfree 4mo ago
Someone on Twitter dubbed it the "agentic ick"
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by contextfree 4mo ago
It's really funny that it uses the Windows dotted-line focus rectangle as a stylistic signifier of "Windowsy thing" while having no idea what it's for.
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by contextfree 4mo ago
It's included free with subscription plans until June 22. I get about 2 hours a day of usage through Claude Code until I hit my usage limit. I just use it for 2 hours then wait for the next day.
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by contextfree 4mo ago
I just have a regular Claude subscription and keep within its usage limits
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by contextfree 4mo ago
Addendum: Interestingly, it ended up taking me about the same amount of time - 8 hours or so - to hit the "vibe limit" with Fable. But in that amount of time I made about 5-10x as much progress. So my feelings are: 1. It's ex
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by contextfree 4mo ago
JS async is similar to C# async (which I think it was based on), think lots of developers are familiar with one or both of those. As one of those developers Rust async definitely threw me for a loop (literally?) when I first encountered it.
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by contextfree 4mo ago
fwiw, I gave it the same vibecoding project I'd previously tried with Sonnet 4.5 and it took Fable 2 hours to go well beyond (like, 2x beyond) where I got in 8 hours with Sonnet 4.5. (beyond that idk, because past 8 hours with the Sonn
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by contextfree 4mo ago
What does this even mean, how do you extinguish grep
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by contextfree 4mo ago
It seems ridiculous that, for example, Copilot running in Visual Studio working on a C# codebase finds stuff in code by grepping around instead of using the Roslyn-driven code symbol and semantic database built into Visual Studio. I'm
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by contextfree 4mo ago
What in file explorer is still web tech based?
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by contextfree 4mo ago
This was a feature in Windows 10 preview builds for a while (2018-2019ish iirc) but it never shipped to retail.
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by contextfree 5mo ago
A fundamental problem with this is that "8" is two different releases (8.0 and 8.1), "10" is about 9 different releases, and "11" is three different releases so far (21H2, 22H2, and 24H2). It doesn't make
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by contextfree 6mo ago
It's called Global Tetrahedron but it has a dodecahedron as a logo/emblem (guessing intentional)
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by contextfree 6mo ago
Yes, and English/natural language is not necessarily more concise than programming languages, if you need to describe something precisely. For example, I was recently trying to get an agent to debug something which was difficult to deb
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by contextfree 6mo ago
what are the barriers to new DRAM supply coming online?
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by contextfree 6mo ago
I come into work and work on a 20 year old codebase every day, working on slowly modernizing it while preserving the good parts. In my experience, and I've been experimenting with both a lot, LLM-based tools are far worse at this than
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by contextfree 6mo ago
How do you tell a snapped window from a free-floating window in that case?
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by contextfree 6mo ago
On the specific issue of window corner roundedness, Windows 11 is great IMO. The corners are rounded when the window is floating free, but change to square when it's maximized or snapped to a side of the screen. The perfect design.
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by contextfree 7mo ago
https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows/discussion... https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows/pull/15371 https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Amicro
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by contextfree 7mo ago
kind of agree with the actual point about programming; the framing is some Ayn Rand claptrap
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by contextfree 7mo ago
There are like three settings pages that use JavaScript and React Native, the vast majority of Settings is C++ and XAML/WinUI2
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by contextfree 7mo ago
Because it's not true
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by contextfree 7mo ago
No, it was built using WinUI2/UWP XAML. But one section ("Recommended") uses React Native (which on Windows is built on top of WinUI2/UWP XAML)
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by contextfree 7mo ago
It doesn't use web technologies
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by contextfree 7mo ago
this feels to me like "read the room" "not a good look" "don't you know it's uncool to be into that?"
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by contextfree 7mo ago
Reading discussions online and comparing them to my own experience makes me feel crazy, because I've found today's LLMs and agents to be seemingly good at everything except writing code. Including everything else in software eng
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by contextfree 7mo ago
Yes, prompts aren't analogous to higher-level code, they're analogous to wizards or something like that which were always rightly viewed with suspicion.
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by contextfree 7mo ago
"Stop playing your AI garbage and get to bed!" "Mooooom! It's not AI garbage, it's classical procedurally generated content!"
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by contextfree 7mo ago
As far as I've figured out the answer is that some people involved (the ex-PARC Scott McGregor and Charles Simonyi iirc) genuinely thought tiling was better, while others (Bill Gates?) disagreed but went along with it to avoid lawsuits
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by contextfree 8mo ago
It doesn't do any markdown parsing unless you specifically open a .md file

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